Notes

Bernhard died in 818 after his uncle, LOUIS became Emperor and
ordered BERNHARD to be blinded.

"Settipani's "La prehistoire des Capetiens". Weis' "Ancestral
Roots. . ." (50:15).
Bernard succeeded his father, PEPIN, as King of Italy in 812.
Bernard's uncle, LOUIS THE PIOUS, the sole surviving son of
CHARLEMAGNE, became emporer in 814 upon CHARLEMAGNE's death. He
made no provision for Bernard in the plan for succession after
his own death as he had sons of his own. Bernard, feeling he had
been slighted, revolted against LOUIS. LOUIS put down the revolt
and had Bernard blinded. Bernard died from the effects of this
act.
The male-line descendants of Bernard settled down in the tenth
century as fairly undistinguished counts of Parma and Sospiro
and as slightly more distinguished counts of Vermandois, Valois,
ans Vexin in France. Bernard's grandson, HERBERT I, COUNT OF
VERMANDOIS, HERBERT'S brother, PEPIN, became COUNT OF VALOIS."